Review of FeedDemon – Ultimate Feed Reader Software!

May 16, 2007

FeedDemon is a desktop based feed reader for windows based computers. Originally it was developed by Nick Bradbury and then later FeedDemon was purchased by Newsgator. FeedDemon has got great reputation as a software in the category of Feed Readers, so lets check out the PROS & CONS of FeedDemon :

PROS of FeedDemon :

1. Easy to use interface : FeedDemon is a two pane feed reader and so the list of blogs is on the left and the feed items are on the right hand side. Similar feeds can be arranged in folders and the content can be sorted easily by date or time, by feed and by title of the posts. Keyboard shortcuts make the navigation quite easy and all the shortcuts are configurable, so one can easily change them according to their preference. The sleek and pleasing looking interface makes feed reading a joy.

2. Integration with Newsgator online : FeedDemon can easily synchronize with Newsgator online that means even if you are away from your computer and are using the online newsgator account then the feeds read and unread count will not differ, when next time you’ll use your FeedDemon and this feature gives it extra boost as compared to other feed reading softwares (desktop based).

3. Easy Sync with your portable media player : FeedDemon has got FeedStation which automatically downloads the enclosure’s in the posts or any other podcast and then easily syncs them with your IPOD or any other portable media player. It has got tons of options to configure and one can easily get lazy or intelligent people will utilize the saved time in some productive work :).

4. Integration with blogging softwares : FeedDemon easily integrates with the blogging softwares and easily allows you to blog from your favorite blogging software. In case your favorite blogging application is not supported by FeedDemon, then you can configure it manually too.

5. Sorting & Filtering of Feeds : FeedDemon has got great features with sorting and filtering of feeds according to various search terms and channels can be done. This can save lot of time when you’ve got a big list of feeds and where it can be tedious to find out specific posts on a keyword.

6. Small but useful features : There are many features which are small but can be really important to someone like Offline Reading feature which allows you to prefetch the blog posts, so that you can easily read the posts in leisure time even when you are not connected to the internet. FeedDemon has got tabbed browsing and uses the default browser’s rendering engine to display the webpages in itself. So, one can easily browse various links (provided in the posts), without worrying about loosing the current page as you can always open those links in new tabs.

CONS of FeedDemon :

Surprisingly, I was not able to find out any major negative of FeedDemon. It is just about perfect and has got almost all the features and the only big reason I never liked desktop based feed readers was the ability to be on the move and reading the feeds, but because of its integration with NewsGator Online, it easily took over that negative as well.
Overall Rating & Views :

FeedDemon is one perfect piece of software with great features and the power it gives to handle the long list of feeds. It saves time and efforts and that makes it simply superb in its category. It costs $ 29.95 but it’s worth each and every penny.

Links : FeedDemon (Version 2.1) | NewsGator Online

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